Following the damage caused by the heavy rains last April in the Union of the Comoros, the emergency response teams of the Comorian Red Crescent (CRCo) provided material and financial assistance to 89 affected families with the support of PIROI. Last April, the...
As part of the project “Capacity building for crisis response to COVID-19 in the Union of the Comoros”, hygiene kits as well as infection, prevention, and control (IPC) kits were recently donated to Grande Comore Regional Health Department (“DRS”) by the French Red...
In order to familiarise the Comoros islands’ population with first aid, the French Red Cross and the Global First Aid Reference Centre (GFARC) of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (IFRC) organised training for Comorian Red Crescent...
PIROI has developed since 2007 a strategy of pre-positioning emergency relief supplies in regional warehouses, making it much easier to send equipment to affected areas in the event of a disaster. These stocks are pooled at regional and national level, thereby helping...
What is contingency planning? Contingency planning is a structured, multi-step method of preparing an organisation to respond adequately to an emergency and its potential humanitarian impact. The development of a contingency plan defines the role of each stakeholder...
